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by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 04:09:25 PM EST
Russia Returns Stained Glass Windows to Frankfurt Church | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 18.11.2008
Russia has returned six medieval stained glass window panes looted by the Soviet Red Army in 1945 to a church in Frankfurt an der Oder, on the Polish border.

The 700-year-old windows were thought vanished or destroyed until 2005, when they were discovered by a Russian art historian at a cloister outside Moscow, under the jurisdiction of the Pushkin Museum.

 

The first 111 panels, which had been in the possession of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, were returned by Russia in 2002.

 

Another three years would pass before the remaining six panels dating back to the 14th century would be restored to their rightful home at the Marienkirche, the Church of Our Lady.

 

Completing the panel of 117 panes in the church's 20-meter (65-foot) high windows depicting scenes from the Old Testament, the panes were delivered by German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann and Russian Ambassador to Germany Vladimir Kotenev.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 04:14:36 PM EST
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by Magnifico on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 05:44:30 PM EST
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Britain's smallest horse - Telegraph

Lucy the four-year-old Shetland pony is just 19.5 inches tall and weighs around 100 pounds.

Her owner, Sandra Ponder, 63, who runs a veterinary surgery near St Albans, Herts, owns 14 miniature ponies in total.

Lucy is still dwarfed by the group. Her 'largest' pet pony measures around 34 inches.

But the tiny pony loves galloping around the paddock with the larger horses in the stable.

Lucy lives in a specially made stable that is so small it looks more like a children's wendy house.


by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 04:21:09 PM EST
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OMG, I love this stuff!  Thanks Fran!

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 04:33:21 PM EST
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Miniponies!  I love miniponies!

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 10:37:57 PM EST
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